Art of hair curling



April 29, 1958 R. cs. REED 2,832,356

ART OF HAIR cumms Filed May 25, 19s7 s Sheets-Sheet 1 J m wt aw April29, 1958 R. G. REED ART OF HAIR CURLING 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed May 23,1957 zip 11191 I April 29, 1958 R. a. REED 2,832,356

ART OF HAIR CURLING Filed May 23, 1957 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 ART OF HAIRCURLING Robert G. Reed, Marshfield Hills, Mass.

Application May 23, 1957, Serial No. 661,101 Claims. (Cl. 132-34) nitedStates Patent 0 2,832,356 Patented Apr. 29, 1958 2 Fig. 10 is a frontview of the member with a unit attached thereto;

Fig. 11 is a similar view illustrating the catching of the ends of atress in the member;

Fig. 12 is a like view illustrating a partly rolled tress, and

Fig. 13 is a view of a tress held against unrolling by the unit.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, there is showna rotatable member generally indicated at 10 and having a hub 11 and apair of fingers 12 disposed in parallel with the axis of the member Illand of a section that is ar-cuate with respect thereto.

. The fingers 12 are diametrically opposed to provide a pair ofopen-ended slots 13. A pin 14 is threaded into the hub 11 eccentricallythereof to lie in parallel with One particular objective is that ofensuring the better formation of curls by utilizing a sheet of separatewool fibres that are naturally curly and that naturally carry lanolin.

Another objective is that of providing a rotatable member and unit thatenables the tresses to be quickly and easily formed into rolls and inwhich a further objective is that of providing a device by which therollforming member may be rotated in either direction.

These objectives are attained by providing a rotatable member havingfingers in parallel with the axis and arcuate with respect thereto.These fingers are spaced apart to enable a tress to be insertedtherebetween, and they house an eccentric parallel pin which detachablyreceives the tubular part of a unit preferably carrying a sheet ofindividual wool fibres and elastic means by which, after a tress hasbeen wound about the fingers and the rolled tress and the unit have beenslipped therefrom, the tress may be held in its roll form during theinterval required to ensure that the curls are fully enough formed.

A suitable device for rotating the member to wind hair therearound mayconveniently comprise a shaft to which the member may be attached andwhich has a rack and pinion drive, with a spring in control thereof toprovide a change in the direction of shaft rotation depending on whetherthe spring is being compressed or released.

In the accompanying drawings, there is shown an illustrative embodimentof the invention from which these and other of its objectives, novelfeatures, and advantages will be readily apparent. In the drawings:

Fig. l is a side elevational view of a rotatable hair holding andcurling member in accordance with the invention attached to a device forrotating it in either direction;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the rotatable member on an increased scale;

Fig. 3 is a front'end view thereof;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a unit for use with the member;

Fig. 5 is an elevation of the elastic;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan view of the unit with the elastic securedthereto;

Fig. 7 is a side view of the member rotating device;

Figs. 8 and 9 are cross sections taken along the indicated lines 8-8 and9-9, respectively, of Fig. 7;

said axis and partly within the segment defined by one of the fingers12.

A unit, generally indicated at 15, consists of a tubular element 16,whose bore is dimensioned to receive the pin 14 so that the unit 15 maybe quickly and easily attached to and removed from the member 10. Theelement 16 may be plastic and has a radially disposed, flexible rib 17of substantial length to which are secured by one of their endsand inapproximately side-by-side relationship;

a multiplicity of wool fibres thus to provide a wool sheet indicated at18.

An elastic member 19 is shown as having an anchor 20 and an aperture 21shaped and arranged to be caught in ribapertures 22 and 23,respectively. When the elastic 19 is thus attached to the unit 15, it isso tensioned as to be detachably secured with its release tab 24 exposedat one end of the unit 15.

With a unit 15 attached to the member 10, the user gathers a tress,suggested at 25, and places their ends transversely through the slots 13of the member 10. The hairs of the tress 25 are spread relativelyuniformly along the sheet 18 thus to ensure maximum contact with thewool fibres. The member 10 is then turned, in one direction or theother, to curl the tress 25 about the fingers 12. The unit 15 and thewound tress 25 are then slid together from the member 10. The user thendisengages the tab end of the elastic 19 and pulls it over the woundtress and disposes its aperture 21 over the opposite end of the element16 where it is caught in the annular groove 26. The wound tress is thussecurely held during the curl-forming interval. It will be understoodthat when a wound tress is removed from the member 10, the unit 15 isreplaced bya like unit, there being one used for each curl to be formed.

While the member 10 may be manually rotated to wind a tress thereabout,means for rotating the member 10 in either direction afford substantialadvantages and the device, generally indicated at 27 and detailed inFigs. 7-9, is well adapted to meet all requirements.

The device 27 consists of body sections 28 and 29 interconnected as at30 to rotatably support the shaft 31 with one end exposed for entry intothe socket 32 in the hub 11 of the member 10 formed with keys 33 forentry into the shaft grooves 34, thus to provide a positive connectionbetween the shaft and its hub.

The body sections 28 and 29 also rotatably support the shaft 35 with itsaxis at right angles to that of the shaft 31. The shaft 35 carries apinion 36 and a bevel gear 37 meshing with the bevel gear 38 on theshaft 31.

An arm 39 is pivotally connected to the body sections as at 40, and itcarries a rack 41 arcuate with respect to the pivoted connection 40. Therack 41 meshes with the pinion 36 and extends through the body with itsfree end having a transverse stop pin 42 thus to limit the extent towhich the arm 39 may be swung away from the body by the U-shaped spring43 shown as having human hair automatically set up a heating andcurl-setting action, which, together with the natural oils in the wool,together with a tightening and curling eifect of my machine,preduces aquick and lasting hair-curling action.

From the foregoing it will be appreciated that the invention -makespossible the winding of tresses into rolls :withmaximum easeandconvenience. The wound tresses result in attractive curls to theformation of which the intimate relation of the wool and human hairsmakes an important contribution.

I claim:

1. An article of manufacture, constituting a hair curling unit,comprising a pin including an external longitudinal rib, an elasticelement anchored at one end tosaid rib, and wool arranged as a sheet ofseparate fibres securedat one end to said rib, said other end of saidelement being in the form of a loop exposed at the other end of saidelement at one end of said sheet so that after a tress of hair is woundwith the wool sheet around said pin it may be stretched lengthwise ofandover the wound tress and its loop passed over said pin.

2..An article of manufacture, constituting a hair curling unit,comprising a pin including an external longitudinal rib, an elasticelement anchored at oneend of-said rib and having its other end in theform of a loop, and wool arranged as a sheet of separate fibres securedat one end to said rib, the loop end of said element being exposed atthe other end of said sheet asaaese so that after a tress of hair iswound around said pin incontact with the wool fibres, said element maybe stretched lengthwise and over the wound tress and its loop passedover said pin, the end of said pin receiving said looped end having anannular recess.

3. An article of manufacture, constituting a hair curling unit,comprising a pin including an external longitudinal rib, an elasticelement anchored at one end of said rib and having its other end in theform of a loop, means detachably holding said loop end exposed at oneend of said pin, wool arranged as a sheet of separate fibres eachsecured at one end to said rib, and adapted to be woundin associationwith a tuft of hair to be curled about said pin.

4. A hair curler comprising a rotatable hub including a pair of opposedfingers extending in parallel with the axis of rotation and of a sectionarcuate with respect thereto, and an element comprising woolarranged asa sheet of separate fibres joined at one end detachably andeccentrically connected'to said hub and extending outwardly between saidfingers.

5. -A hair curler comprising a rotatable hub including a pair of opposedfingers extending in parallel with the axis of rotation and of a sectionarcuate with respect thereto, anelement comprising a member whose lengthis approximately equal to'the length of said fingers and which isdetachably and eccentrically connected to said hub, andwool arranged asa sheet of separate fibres joined at one end to said member.

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